Hello my dear readers, today I bring you my impressions of the start of the series The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare.
Without ado, I will start saying that every people talk about this series, so, I was watching the movie first! I didn't know that the film was a failure, because its cast is great. Had Jamie Campbell Bower fucking handsome, the beautiful Lily Collins and what everyone said, an amazing plot. Ok, watched the movie and I noticed it was super cool, had some action scenes, a story with a Q of magic and so I said, I need to read the book!
I started the book and finished it in three days, it because I wanted to have done before, but didn't. Reading very flowed, however, in the first few chapters I could ever understand why the film didn't rocked. The cast doesn't failed, but the script.. Yes! I think they forgot that it was based on a book and I've never seen something so different! But still, I liked the movie, by the way, I loved it!
But now I will talk about the book.
It all starts with Clary and her friend Simon going to a nightclub very ballad in New York called Pandemonium, and in that place, Clary sees a super cute guy that she is interested, but the guy seems bewitched by an extremely beautiful girl appears, wearing white and not the kind that would have another chance. Clary is even discouraged, but there is something very curious about that girl ... She has a whip in hand with which holds the boy and takes him to a particular area where entry was prohibited. Half puzzled, Clary goes after them and all she thought was real and undoes the front. The unlikely happens. Her world is affected and the first meeting between her and Jace Wayland couldn't be worse. She sees killing the handsome boy and oddly enough ... He disappears. To complete, only she seems to be seeing everything.
Is she crazy? What's happening? To help, after the episode, Clary's mother disappears mysteriously leaving behind a daughter worried about a destroyed and full house of unlikely things.
Clary will have to be brave to be able to find Jocelyn and with the help of Jace and his shadowhunters friends, she embarks on an extraordinary adventure entitled to lair of death and everything!
Well, I won't say more about the plot, I will focus myself more on the characters.
I found the characters very, very artificial! They had no depth at all, but I liked Jace's strong personality, I think he was the one who held the whole book and also the fun and annoying way to Simon, I think he is a very good character. Clary on the other side, is the typical girl confused and stumbled across the rebel who actually is nothing but a person seeking to find their place in world. This might work if the author had better explored that side. I think she was too caught up in the action and sinned in points like this. The Lightwood brothers are also captivating, although not participate much of things. And the rest, well, the rest is the rest and the only one who deserves sympathy is Luke, he is A-1!
About the plot, found it very well thought, Cassandra mixed in a certain fantasy and reality tone about to impress, captivate and make readers ask more. I wanted to know more! However, I thought I might have had a little less bullshit and a little more "let's get right to the point."
About the time and space, everything is harmonium, the author developed all very well, time is subtle to the chronological and the space is open and spacious with good descriptions without getting totally boring. The narrator is omniscient selective, it switches its focus at various times, but wasn't a problem in this book. In fact, helped her down, because would focus only on Clary, wouldn't work.
Anyway, I'm dying to get the next book, because the end leaves you intrigued, it's amazing how Cassandra addresses issues that are viewed askance by society so naturally, such as incest and homosexuality. I really enjoyed it and hope to approach the characters evolve throughout the series and that, please, the end is not a complete disappointment!
Until next time folks!
